Air Pollution Control Board

Meeting Details: (Revised 07/03/2025)

  • The July 9, 2025 meeting has been cancelled.

2025 Meeting Dates

January 8, 2025
February 12, 2025 - Cancelled
March 12, 2025 - Cancelled
April 9, 2025
May 14, 2025 - Cancelled
June 11, 2025
July 9, 2025 - Cancelled
August 13, 2025
September 10, 2025
October 8, 2025
November 12, 2025
December 10, 2025

Board Characteristics

Fourteen members: twelve appointed by the Governor for four-year terms and two ex officio.

Members include:

  • a registered professional engineer with at least five (5) years' experience in the field of air pollution control;
  • a licensed physician with experience in health effects of air contaminants;
  • a person working in a field directly related to agriculture or conservation;
  • a person actively working in the management of and with current full-time employment in a private manufacturing concern and have a college degree and eight (8) years of combined technical training and experience in permit compliance for Title 5 or Non-Title 5 sources for a manufacturing facility permitted in the State of Tennessee; 
  • a county mayor or chief executive officer of a Tennessee county;
  • a person working in municipal government;
  • Two (2) persons from Tennessee industry and with current full-time employment with a private manufacturing concern and have a college degree in engineering or equal and eight (8) years of combined technical training and experience in air pollution abatement for either a Title 5 permit holder or a Non-Title 5 permitted source in the State of Tennessee;
  • a person involved in the program of an institute of higher learning in the state involved in the conducting of training in air pollution evaluation and control;
  • a person representing conservation interests;
  • a small generator of air pollution representing automotive interests;
  • a person representing environmental interests;
  • Commissioners of Environment and Conservation and Economic and Community Development or their designees.

Commissioned under T.C.A. 68-201-104.

The statute authorizing this board expires June 30, 2025 and the one-year wind-down period begins.

Member Term Expires Representation
Dr. John Benitez  08-31-2025 Licensed Physician with experience in health effects of air pollutants
Dr. Chunrong Jia 04-30-2026 Environmental Interests
Nicholas Ramos 04-30-2026 Conservation Interests
Stephen Moore 08-31-2027 Working for Eastman Chemical Company with technical experience
Dr. Shawn A. Hawkins 08-31-2028 Working in field related to Agriculture or Conservation
Kyle Etheridge 08-31-2027 Representative of the Tennessee Industry
The Honorable Ken Moore, City of Franklin 08-31-2025 Working in Municipal Government
Dr. Joshua Fu, Ph.D.  04-30-2026 Involved with Institution of Higher Learning on air pollution evaluation and control
Michael Haverstick 08-31-2026 Working in management in Private Manufacturing
Tara Pedraza Ex-Officio Commissioner's Designee, Dept. of Environment and Conservation
Caitlin Roberts Jennings 06-30-2026 Small Generator of Air Pollution representing Automotive Interests
Amy Spann, P.E. 08-31-2026 Registered Professional Engineer
The Honorable Larry Waters,
Sevier County
08-31-2028 County Mayor
Jimmy West Ex-Officio Commissioner's Designee, Dept. of Economic and Community Development

Past Meetings

September 11, 2024

July 10, 2024

April 10, 2024

March 13, 2024

January 10, 2024

November 8, 2023

October 11, 2023

August 9, 2023

June 14, 2023

May 10, 2023

April 12, 2023 - Cancelled

March 8, 2023 - Cancelled

February 8, 2023

January 11, 2023

November 10, 2021

October 13, 2021

August 11, 2021

June 9, 2021

April 14, 2021

February 10, 2021

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